Maps created by combining different models of glaciers and ice sheets reveal the way water is flowing deep beneath Antarctica ...

New photos of Mercury's mysterious north pole reveal a glimpse of the permanently dark, frigid craters that may hold ice dozens of feet ... where massive lava flows 3.7 billion years ago created ...

Crevasses are widening faster as meltwater drives fissures deeper into the ice and lubricates the base of glaciers, ...

Even though "glacial" is commonly used to describe extremely slow, steady movement, a new study has found that glaciers speed ...

Neal Iverson started with two lessons in ice physics when asked to describe a research paper about glacier ice flow that has just been published in the journal Science. First, said the ...

What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to ...

An acute need to account for warm glacier ice Open the walk-in freezer in Iverson's campus lab and you're looking at a 9-foot-tall ring-shear device that's been simulating glacial forces and ...

ice, and bitterly cold temperatures. The athletes run around the Union Glacier exploration camp which is 600 miles from the South Pole. All competitors wear goggles, gloves, and balaclavas.

Related: Over 1,700 frozen viruses found in a Tibetan glacier.] The team used radio echo sounding technologies and advances in ice flow modeling to pinpoint exactly where to drill. The lowest 688 ...

If glacier edges melt, ice on Antarctica will flow into the ocean more easily, resulting in much higher sea levels. Asahi Shimbun Staff Writer Yumi Nakayama is accompanying the expedition as a ...